On the night of February 13–14, 1945, a series of Allied air raids began that destroyed large parts of Dresden and killed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 15 hours beginning on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, the historic city of Dresden, celebrated as the "German Florence" was ...

Experts have successfully defused an unexploded World War II-era bomb found in the German city of Dresden. Ahead of the operation, 18,000 people in the area were evacuated from the city center. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel walk along the construction site at the demolished Carola Bridge on the banks of the Elbe ...

A German bomb disposal team Thursday gave the all-clear after defusing an unexploded World War II bomb that forced a mass evacuation in the city of Dresden. The operation had been complicated by a ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Germans to “defend democracy” on the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, as the emboldened far right rattles the ...

LONDON -- Thousands of people were evacuated from the center of the east German city of Dresden on Wednesday, as authorities there prepared to defuse a World War II bomb discovered near one of the ...

An unexploded British World War Two bomb in Dresden has been defused, police in Germany say. Much of the centre of the city was evacuated after the 250kg (551lb) device was discovered near the former ...

In her new book, Icon Dresden, Susanne Vees-Gulani connects historical memory with contemporary politics to examine how Dresden’s image as a beautiful, innocent cultural icon—cemented long before ...

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DRESDEN, Germany -- Around 18,000 people must evacuate an area of central Dresden by 9 a.m. local time Wednesday after a World War II bomb was discovered near a city, police said Tuesday. The fire ...